It's actually MY fault Hillary lost (commentary)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - We should have a game: "Who Will Hillary Blame Next?"

Because sooner or later she's got to get to the end of her list, right?

Hillary Clinton is starting the publicity push for her forthcoming book: "What Happened." It details her failed campaign for president in 2016.

She should have titled it, "How I Lost."

Or maybe, "How the Hell Did THAT Happen?"

Chapters of the book have been leaked to selected outlets in order to drum up interest. Here's the CliffsNotes version: Me losing the presidency is everybody else's fault but my own.

She blames the Russians. She blames Donald Trump, who creeped up on her during that debate. She blames the FBI. She blames James Comey.

All pretty much par for the course. The usual suspects. Nothing we haven't heard before.

But now the list includes then-Vice President Joe Biden, who slammed the Clinton campaign for failing to craft a message for middle-class voters. Which was only the truth, and led to the losses of blue-collar states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

She also has the knife out for Bernie Sanders, who, we guess, was guilty of too accurately pointed out Hillary's flaws during the primary. That's not going to sit too well with Bernie's lefty legions, who, in the style of the GOP-bashing Tea Party, are growing more and more antagonistic of the Democratic establishment by the day.

And, amazingly, Hillary blames anti-Trump women who marched in the streets after the inauguration. Their crime? Not showing that same enthusiasm on Election Day, when they could have channeled all that emotion into pulling the lever for Hillary, one of their own. The woman who was trying to shatter the ultimate glass ceiling.

Well, Hillary's got that right. But she fails to go deeper and ask: Why was that enthusiasm absent? Let's look in the mirror, perhaps?

The first "leak" from the book detailed that infamous debate when Trump followed Hillary around the stage. See what a stalker he was? See how the man threatened the woman?

So, more identity politics. More bashing of Trump. More of the very stuff that didn't work last November when Hillary was running for the White House. Has she learned nothing?

Democrats, meanwhile, don't seem to be too enthusiastic about having Hillary rambling around out there on a book tour, dredging all this stuff up again. A lot of them seem to have moved on from it all, even if she hasn't.

If Hillary's teeing up yet another presidential run, in 2020, she's not going to find a lot of takers in the party. Democrats may need to bring former President Barack Obama in for an intervention. Or an exorcism. One way or another, Dems are going to have to find a way to tell Hillary that the third time will not be the charm. She had her shot, two shots, actually, and now it's time for somebody else.

But other than making money, which we know is another favorite Clinton pastime, why else would Hillary be out there hawking a book if not to keep her hand in presidential politics? It's like that old song from the 1980s: Don't you forget about me.

But how much of a role is there for Hillary in the Democratic Party outside of being a gray eminence? How many people running for the House or Senate in 2018 will want to have her out on the trail with them? That will be telling.

But she's also just the kind of establishment, one-percenter type that an increasingly restless left will have in their sights. After all, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is facing a challenge from the left. Why would Hillary be immune to something like that?

At least it will give her somebody else to blame if she's yet again denied the brass ring.